Guan Tang Chock and She Clan Grand Ancestral Temples The Chinese are a temple people. In addition to the multiple small ancestral temples scattered throughout the neighborhoods of Chinese villages, the oldest clans typically built larger temples called Grand Ancestral Temples, to [...]
In March of 2021, we expanded the scope of our research to include searching for the families of the women who married into the Chock clan. This is very difficult to do, because the information about females recorded in clan records is usually very [...]
Gu Chuan Pin 古傳品 was one of the early immigrants from the Nazhou Gu clan who settled in Hawaii. His family's experiences in Hawaii and later in Chicago, Illinois are fascinating, because they are tied closely to the political affairs of China. Here's Gu Chuan [...]
Susan Chock Salgy Chock Lun - publisher of the Chinese of Hawaii While researching the Chock/Zhuo descendants from Guangdong who settled in Hawaii, our genealogist Louise Skyles discovered a little-known set of publications that proved to be extremely valuable at connecting families [...]